Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:10:18AM -0400, John L. Males wrote: Modified Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 (squeeze) Planning, Upgrade, Modifications from Highly modified ^^^ Debian 4.x Etch ^^^ And you upgraded to Lenny, then Squeeze

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-04 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.07.2012 07:10, John L. Males wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John, this is a little offtopic, but could you provide link or keyserver where we can find your public PGP key. It doesn't seem to be on pool.sks-keyservers.net,

Re[06]: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-04 Thread John L. Males
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bart, I replied to your private eMail in detail. In summary I have to start from a fresh Debian install and have multiple VM machines for many of the problems to ensure my system is not impacted for day to day. I do not have the time or machine

Re[08]: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-04 Thread John L. Males
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mika, The keyservers my gpg/pgp keys can be found on include: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net hkp://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net Regards, John L. Males Toronto, Ontario Canada 04 July 2012 13:05 mailto:jlma...@gmail.com

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-04 Thread Miles Bader
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I do not think there is much trolling. We need to discuss issues openly. It certainly _resembles_ a classic troll: long and vaguely insulting (under a surface veneer of politeness), yet curiously vague and information-free, despite its length, and

Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread John L. Males
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been using Debian as my primary distribution for the last 4 years. I have been using Linux as my only OS since 1999. My decision to move to Debian included the many derivatives of Debian I may use for various purposes,

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting John L. Males (jlma...@gmail.com): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope that everybody will be Wise Enough to not feed the troll. But, just in case: please don't feed the troll. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:09:44PM -0600, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Quoting John L. Males (jlma...@gmail.com): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope that everybody will be Wise Enough to not feed the troll. But, just in case: please don't feed

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread Philipp Kern
Hallo Charles, am Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 10:35:45AM +0900 hast du folgendes geschrieben: I do not think there is much trolling. it's a whole lot of handwaving which doesn't actually help anyone. Sadly so. Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
John L. Males jlma...@gmail.com writes: Etch and Lenny were were generally positive experiences in terms of stability with the exception of apt-get and apt-get related cousins. As of Squeeze I have experienced a number of problems that include, but limited to: Hi John, I'm sorry that

Re[02]: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread John L. Males
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ, Thank you for your intelligent reply. Most of what you state is on the mark 100%. Please see my comments below: Message replied to: Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 19:04:55 -0700 From: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org To: jlma...@gmail.com Cc:

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 08:50:20PM -0400, John L. Males wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ladies and Gentlemen, I replied to John in detail via a private e-mail. Summary : I suggested John to report every problem via bug reports. Regards, Bart Martens -- To